276       Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.

          Liber N N  1676 Came the Said Christopher by his Said Attorny and the Said
                  George in his proper person also came & the said George Saith that
                  as to two thousand foure hundred forty nine pounds of tobacco
                  part of the said summe of foure thousand eight hundred forty One
                  pounds of tobacco he cannot gainsay for that he oweth the same
                  to him the said Christopher & as to two thousand three hundred
                  flinty two pounds of tobacco the remainder of the said Sume of
                  foure thousand eight hundred forty One pounds of tobacco he hath
                  paid Whereupon it is granted by the Court here that the Said Chris-
                  topher Rousby recover against the said George Thompson the summe
                  of two thousand foure hundred forty nine pounds of tobacco dam-
                  ages occasioned by the trespas aforesaid as also the summe of five
                  hundred eighty Seaven pounds of tobacco costs of suite but so as
                  execution stay untill the tenth day of October next. And the said
                  Christopher as to the said summe of two thousand three hundred
                  ninty two pounds of tobacco goe thereof without day.

                 Henry Holt    Memorandum that this present Court to wit the
                    agt eleventh day of ffebruary Annoq Dom 1675
               George Thompson Came here into Court Henry Holt by Robert
                              Ridgely his Attorny & exhibiteth here in Court
                  his certaine bill against George Thompson Gent One of the At-
                  tornyes of this Court of a plea that he render unto him One good
                  Sound & well conditioned mare betweene three and Seaven yeares
                  of age One paire of new shoes and stockins & two new blew shirts
                  which to him he oweth and unjustly deteineth
                   And whereupon the said Henry Holt by Robert Ridgely his At-
                  torny Saith that whereas the said George Thompson the twentith day
              p. 171 of October 1674 by his certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with the
                  seale of him the said George and here in Court produced whose date
                  is the day and yeare aforesaid did bind himself e his heirs executors
                  admrs or ass ignes at or upon the twentith day of October 1675 to
                  deliver unto the said Henry to him his heirs executrs admrs or as-
                  signes One good Sound well conditioned mare being betweene three
                  & seaven yeares of age & likewise pay unto him the said Holt one
                  paire of new shoes & Stockins & two new blew Shirts Yet the said
                  George Thompson the said mare between three & Seaven yeares of
                  age One paire of new shoes & stockins and two new blew Shirts to
                  him the said Henry according to the tenor of the said writeing
                  Obligatory though often thereunto requested hath not paid & deliv-
                  ered but the Same to pay & deliver hath denyed & as yet doth deny
                  whereupon the Said Henry Holt saith he is dampnified & hath lost to
                  the value of five thousand pounds of tobacco And thereupon he bring-
                  eth his Suite.
                   And the Said George in his proper person cometh & defendeth
                  the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty to imparle hereunto